Lando Norris, a four-time race winner in this year's BRDC
British Formula 3 Championship partnered by Duo, has been named the
winner of the prestigious McLaren AUTOSPORT BRDC Award at the
end-of-season Autosport Awards ceremony held at Grosvenor House in
London (Sunday 4 December).

The 17-year-old saw off three other rivals and was selected as
the victor by a panel of judges consisting of motorsport industry
experts to claim the prize package, which includes a paid simulator
role with McLaren, a test in one of the Woking-based team's F1 cars
and BRDC membership.

Norris follows in the footsteps of the two previous winners,
Will Palmer and George Russell, to win the award when competing in
the UK's leading single-seater series, which was previously named
BRDC Formula 4 and renamed to BRDC British F3 this year. The
Glastonbury-based racer saw off fellow British F3 rivals Ricky
Collard and Toby Sowery, along with former BRDC F4 race winner
Sennan Fielding.

The four nominees underwent fitness and simulator assessments
before facing a rigorous two-day test on the Grand Prix Circuit at
Silverstone in Formula 2 single-seater, DTM Mercedes and McLaren
650S GT3 machinery. The quartet then faced interviews with a panel
of experts before the judges, consisting of BRDC President Derek
Warwick and two-time British Touring Car Champion Jason Plato among
others, selected Norris as the winner.

After collecting the Award, Norris said: "I've been pretty
nervous coming up to it. It's been great, the racing success this
year, but this has really topped it off.I need to give a lot of
respect to the other drivers - Ricky, Sennan and Toby. I've raced
against them for the past few years, we've given each other a lot
of respect and they've made my life hard."

Norris enjoyed a stellar 2016 season, taking four wins in a
partial British F3 campaign with victories at Snetterton and
Rockingham, before the Carlin man scored a brace of wins on the
legendary Spa-Francorchamps circuit in Belgium. He also claimed the
Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup and Northern European Cup titles, to
accompany his Toyota Racing Series crown which he secured at the
start of the year.

The McLaren AUTOSPORT BRDC Award was established in 1989 to help
progress the careers of outstanding young single-seater British
racing drivers, with previous winners including F1 race winner
David Coulthard, three-time Indy 500 winner Dario Franchitti and F1
World Champion Jenson Button.